HOSPITAL CHARGES.
REVISED SCALE NOTIFIED.
The Gazotte contains an amend- ed scale of charges for mainten" ance and medical treatment. in Government Hospitals to come into force on January 1st next.
Amongst these it is stated that the daily charges for privato patients at hospitals other than the Ponk Hospital are:-First class, $8; second-class $5; and third-class, $2,
Children under twelve years of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany
Ashley Sterne
The price paid at the recent auction of Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport works out, I ace It stated, at £80 a square inch. Out of curiosity, I have been making a few other calculations concern ing the value of objects of art and virtue which have more or less fe-
tice of drowning superfluous kit-" tons done away with. Instead of consigning them to the village duck-pond and wasting good bricka which could be better employed elsewhere, we shall just take them to the nearest Kitten Clinique and have them pumped, full of thyroid,
take to the water of their own ini-- tlative, and we shall no longer endure the sin of kitticide' in our souls.
nge are charged at half the fore-cently been subjected. to the ham-whereafter they will presumably going rates in each class.
mer, and very luminating the re- Private patients other than aults are. The original M. S. of Government or naval or military Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," patients charged 1st or 2nd class for example (bought by Herr daily rates for maintenance will Tonik, of Schockinbald,) works, be subject to the following add-out at fourpenco per dotted crot- tional charges:
For medical attendance, a charge at the rate of one third of the rate for maintenance.
The only drawback to this hum- chot. A Caxton shilling-edition anitarian scheme is that no sooner (dated 1480) of "Paradise Lost" will the kittens become denizens of (bought by that well-known bibli- the water than some callous, sports ophile, Senator Bocker Worm, of woman is sure to start, a pack of Vermiform, Pa.) approximates to kittenhounds and hunt them re- the very seasonable figure of gevonlentlessly, like otters, for the sake lines for sixpehee; while Praxi-of their now-despised fur. So I'm teles' status of Ajax defying the afraid they're doomed. all ends up. Licensing Act (purchased by the For maternity cases, charges lion. Bopto-Legger, of Dryot, Ba.) of $100 and $75 respectively, in works out ut, something like two lieu of the above charge for hob a pound, which is less than medien attendance.
For surgical operations, such charge, not exceeding $300, as the Principal Civil Medical Officer shall think fit having regard to the nature of the operation.
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A well-know novellat says that ii- he were granted the fulfilment of one wish he would wish to be a
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1926.
DAIRY FARM NEWS
CANADIAN POULTRY
Fresh Stocks of New Season Birds
"just received ex s.s. "Empress of Asia”
Chickens 3-31 lbs. @ 80 cts. per lb.
Capons 41-5 lbs. @ 85 cts. per lb.
schoolboy again. Eutorpel for The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.
views.
The Principal Civil Medical But perhaps the most remarkward, please, while I give my own Officer will have discretionaryable result of all has been achieved power to waive the', additional by the sale of the entire series of fees,
original M.S.S. of Mixed Crij!" These were recently put up for Auction by the Society for the Prevention of Public Nuisances,
Private patients in Government hospitals (other than the Peak Hospital) will be attended by Gloy- ernment Medical Officers.
If in the case of a private patient charged 1st or 2nd class daily rates a Government con- sultant is called in, either at the request of the patient or by arrangement between the patient and the Medical Offeer, the amount of the consultant's fee shall be a matter for arrangement between the patient and the con- sultant.
Where an operation is perform ed by a consultant no charge will be made by the Government in respect of the operation.
Where a consultant is called in. the usual charge for medical at- tendance by members of the hos- pital staff will in all cases be made.
and were purchased by an elderly governess, stated to be half-witted. for a price.equivalent to tuppence por rod, pole, or perch.
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In the interior of a shark cap. tured by sonic Mediterranean fisherman were found, amongst other loat property a metal ciga- rette-case, a pair of lady's shoes, and a tin of condensed milk. If
Where in the opinion of the Principal Civil. Medical Officer the patient's means are such that you don't believe me, consult the he is unable to
pay the con- sultant's fee the consultant will make no charge.
paper controlled by Lord Botherme Badgerbrook-I forget which. What's worrying me is how the Certificates.-A charge of 35 is shark managed to get hold of these made for the certificates in con articles, They are not the sort of nection with the fitness or un-thing which the average pearl- fitness of patients or others to perform their duty and for invalid. 'ing certificates, and $10 for certi- ficates required by insurance com- panies, etc.
PEAK HOSPITAL.
"' how I'd hate to be once more
Back in my schoolboy dayal With Ovid's "Metomamophones." And Lord Macaulay's "Lays."
O, how I'd loath to plod again
Through Pondich❜ry's "Arith." And swat Todhunter's "Algebra,"
And Greek via Doctor Smith!
How I'd detest to hover o'er
Those beastly German" verbs, Whose gross irregularity
Much schoolboy's brenat per-
turbs!
And how I'd hate to toil agnin
At that hypotenuse
For which (since I have been a
man).
I've found no earthly use!
For only one thing would I wish
To be a boy again:
To steal hard, sour, green apples,
and
To feel that old, sweet pain! CORRESPONDENCE.
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Should Plumbers Perspire?
Sir-No. Yours defiantly. inconstant Reader. "
diver (on whom sharks balten) takes into the water; nor are they
SirAs a mother of nine, I most the type of nourishment which our
strongly protest against any inter- Dumb Friends League would or
ference with plumbers' rights. dinarily offer to a shark. I can
What did Cicero say in B.C. 135?--- only conclude that the monster be-Yours with knobs, Hephzibah came involved in a tidal wave, and
Boole. The charges for private patients got shot into the midst of a picnic- at the Peak Hospital are:-party on the Lide where its pre- First-class, $10; second-class. $6. datory instincts inspired it to Children under twelve years pocket the first things which it of age are charged at half the could lay its fins on. foregoing ratos in each class.
Patients to make their own arrangements for medical attend
ance.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PRICE OF THEATRE PROGRAMMES.
*
Sir-1 heard the cuckoo last- Tuesday-three-months, in a mush- room plantation at the rear of Exeter Cathedral. I should be in-
your readers have ever heard a
cuckoo so far west at that time of the year-Your's triumphantly, Batts Innes-Belfry,
cheese-tast-
"That egregious old fool, Profes-terested to know whether any of sor Barmion Crumpett, F.Z.S., thinks it more likely, however, that the shark itself was originally deposited in a state of roe upen
Sir, This iniquitous sweating the various articles (which, he
aystem must be put a stop to, for, suggests, were left on the beach by an absent-minded tripper), and by, with, or from. If plumbers grew up round them.. Personally, are to be privileged in this mat- think thut old Barmion, Crumpottter, philatelists; Swedenborgians is, in his old age, getting a trifle light-house-keepers, doughy on the bun, so to speak. ers, dogs-collar calibrators, and sewage-farm bailiffs' will all By means of injections of thy-demand the right to perspire, and can only lead to civil war, roid gland extract, Dr. Spaul, of this London University, has succeeded arson, simony, fraudulent mis- in persuading an axolotl residing representation, and bigamy. Are in Brighton Acquarium to forsake we never going to learn a lesson Sir,-Although I enjoyed last its native fluid and become a land from the fall of the Roman night's opera at the Theatre Royal animal. Exactly what scientific Empire? Yours heatedly, Perce and would like to add my tribute purpose is thus served, my ignor to the high excellence of the whole ance of scientifics precludes my Company, I would also like to pro-aaying. But I think the basic idea test against being asked to pay 50 is capable of being developed to conts for a two-page programme humane ends. Assuming that in printed In Singapore, having in-course of time Dr. Spaul will be complete stories of the two opernsable, conversely, to induce a land *badly told and all mixed up, and animal to live in water, I shall (more serious still) giving the hope to see the old and cruel prac- wrong names of those taking the principal parts.
etc.
To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph.1
CHILD-MARKET.
BABIES SOLD IN HUNGARY.
Budapest, Aug. 17-A short
Sper.
taking
N. B.--Correspondenta part in this discussion are remind- ed that letters should be written on the back of the paper only, and green ink must be used. · Letters failing to comply with these simple conditions will be promptly re- turned unopened.
The police then discovered that. the traffic in children was a com-: mon practice in the second-hand market; that the children were
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FIGURES FOR SEPTEMBER,
The returng of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 80th September, 25 certified by the Managers of the spective Banks are:
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The programme I bought for 50, cents was absolutely worthless" either to explain the stories or to tell me correctly who were the principals. The price was, in any
sold by starving "parents and case, extortionate. I think the Company ought to stop annoying time ago the police of Debrecen bought by childless farmers and its patrone, in this way-Yours, discovered a woman offering three peasants who assumed entire con- children for sale in the second-trol over them and held no further hand market. STUNG.
She succeeded in communication with the parents;
and that the standard market Chartered Hongkong, 9, October 1926.
selling a girl of fourteen and a hay.of four, but no purchaser was prices wore £3 for a child of four- Bank of India, Australia and forthcoming for the third child, teen, 30. for a child of four, and
China an infant of nine months. " about 128. for a baby',
Hongkong and When questioned the woman
Shanghai A message from Hankow says it said that her husband had been
Banking Cor- is estimated that up to yesterday disabled by an accident, and that
poration A report from Rabat says that Mercan.. 20,000 to 30,000 refugees had she and her six children were a party of the Ghezawa, the only tile Bank of evacuated Wuchang.
1,510,000 starving: she had taken three of tribe in the northern part of the India, Limited
French zone in Morocco which has not yet surrendered, attacked a detachment of French troops, who lost ton killed, including an officer.
Peking, October 8.
At least fifty women and child-them to the market to ensure them ren were killed in frantic struggles food and lodging and to procure on board, the rescue Vassols, money with which to feed the Reuter.
others.
&Co.Lta
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MINISTER TO BERLIN.
M. CLAUDEL TRANSFERRED
FROM ΤΟΚΥΟΥ
*Paris, Oct. 8. According to Le Journal, M. Paul Claudel will be appointed Ambas-
sador to Berlin. He will be re- placed at, Tokyo by M. Debilly, who has been Minister to Bucharest.
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any diplomatic changes. Hatas.
42,481,200 85,000,000
at 91,202,000..
tin addition Securities deposited 550,0008 with the Crown Agents and Straits.
Government Vlaved at. Total $68,076,076 41,866,000.
In addition Securities, deposited *In addition Sterling Securities do with the Crown Agenta valued at posited with the Crown Agents valued | £380,000..
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